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Shakspere were not great in literature, and making Adin 

 Ballou a literary idol; holding that Michelangelo and 

 Raphael were not great in sculpture and painting, yet in 

 sisting on the greatness of sundry unknown artists who 

 have painted brutally; holding that Beethoven, Handel, 

 Mozart, Haydn, and Wagner were not great in music, but 

 that some unknown performer outside any healthful mu 

 sical evolution has given us the music of the future; de 

 claring Napoleon to have had no genius, but presenting 

 Koutousoff as a military ideal; loathing science that 

 organized knowledge which has done more than all else to 

 bring us out of mediaeval cruelty into a better world and 

 extolling a faith which has always been the most effec 

 tive pretext for bloodshed and oppression. 



The long, slow, every-day work of developing a better 

 future for his countrymen is to be done by others far less 

 gifted than Tolstoi. His paradoxes will be forgotten ; but 

 his devoted life, his noble thoughts, and his lofty ideals 

 will, as centuries roll on, more and more give life and light 

 to the new Eussia. 



